Sonnette



(No Model.)

G. W. SHERMAN.

SONNETTE.

No. 427,274. Patented May 6, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WV. SHERMAN, OF PEARSALLS, NEW YORK.

SONNETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,274, dated May 6,1890. Application filed January 11, 1890. Serial No. 336,673. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SHERMAN, of Pearsalls, in the county ofQueens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Sonnettes, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to sonnettes or clappers such as are used inmusical accompaniments; and it consists in a sonnette composed of astick and two spring-tongues and attached hammers, one of said tonguesand hammers being attached to one side and the other of said tongues andhammers to the opposite side of the stick.

The invention also consists in means of securing the two spring-tonguesto the stick.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings is a face view of one of myimproved sonnettes. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 representsa transverse section taken in the line 0c 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is anedge View of one of the clasps by which the spring-tongues are securedto the stick.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A is the stick of the sonnette, of ordinary flat form.

B B are the two spring-tongues, arranged on opposite faces of the stickand each secured at one end to its respective face.

0 O are the hammers, secured to the free ends of the spring-tongues.

The spring-tongues are represented as composed of flattened steel wireor narrow strips of sheet-steel, and the hammers are represented asconsisting of lumps of metal secured on the free ends of the tongues.These hammers may be secured upon the tongues in any suitable manner, asby casting them thereon.

The spring-tongues B are represented as both secured to the stick by asingle clasp D, which is made of a piece of tin-plate or other sheetmetal. This clasp before it is applied has a rectangular trough-likeform, (shown in Fig. 4,) the width between the sides a a being equal toor slightly greaterv than the width of the spring-tongues. The sideportions a are adapted to be inserted through two slits in the stickjust large enough for their passage. The two spring-tongues being placedopposite each other, one on one side and the other on the other side ofthe stick, between the slits provided therein, the clasp is insertedthrough the said slits and the edges a a turned inward, as shown in Fig.3, and the clasp is then pinched upon the tongues B B by any suitabletool tightly enough to secure the said tongues to the stick.

The sonnette thus constructed with a springtongue and hammer on eachside of the stick Will give a more lively repetition of hammerstrokesthan sonnettes having a sprin -tongue and attached hammer on one sideonly of the stick.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the stick, of two spring-tongues, each having ahammer secured to its free end, the said spring-tongues being arrangedone on one face and the other on the other face of the stick,substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with the stick, of the two spring-tongues carryinghammers at their free ends, one tongue and one hammer on one face andthe other tongue and hammer on the opposite face of the stick, and aclasp passing through the stick and embracing both of the spring-tonguesand securing both of said tongues to the stick, substantially as hereindescribed.

GEORGE W. SHERMAN.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY.

